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Terms and Concepts aposiopesis carpe diem Genres and Forms apostrophe catachresis appreciation catalexis Periods, Schools, and Movements archaism catalog National, Regional, and Diasporic archetype catharsis Poetries Poetry in Culture and Society archilochian cauda argument caudate sonnet Terms and Concepts arsis and thesis cento absorption arte mayor chain rhyme accent arte menor character, Theophrastan accentual-syllabic verse artifi ce, poetic chastushka accentual verse Arzamas chiasmus acephalous asclepiad choliambus address assonance choriamb adonic asynarteton chorus adynaton asyndeton Christabel meter aeolic attention Chuci aestheticism audience. See PERFORMANCE; READER; classical meters in modern languages aff ect READER RESPONSE; RHETORIC AND POETRY classical poetics aff ective fallacy aureate diction classicism affl atus autonomy clavis agudeza auto sacramental cliché alam. kāra autotelic climax alcaic auxesis close reading alcmanic verse bacchius close rhyme aleatory poetics ballad meter, hymn meter closure alexandrine bard cobla allaeostropha barzelletta. See FROTTOLA AND codework alliteration BARZELLETTA cognitive poetics allusion bathos colon ambiguity beat colonial poetics amphibrach binary and ternary commonplace amplifi cation bob and wheel composition. See ORAL-FORMULAIC anaclasis book, poetic THEORY; POET; RHETORIC AND POETRY; anacoluthon boustrophedon VERSIFICATION anacreontic bouts-rimés composition by fi eld anacrusis bridge concatenation anadiplosis broken rhyme conceit anagram burden conceptismo analogy. See METAPHOR; SIMILE; SYMBOL Burns stanza concision anapest bylina concrete universal anaphora caccia connotation and denotation anceps cacophony consonance anthimeria cadence constraint anthology caesura conte dévot anticlimax cancionero/cancioneiro contests, poetic. See POETIC CONTESTS; antimetabole canon POETRY SLAM antispast cante jondo contrafactum antistrophe canticum and diverbium convention antithesis canto copla antonomasia canzone coq-à-l’âne antropofagia canzoniere corona aphaeresis capitolo coronach apocope carmen correlative verse aporia carmina fi gurata cossante © Copyright, Princeton University Press. No part of this book may be distributed, posted, or reproduced in any form by digital or mechanical means without prior written permission of the publisher. xvi TOPICAL LIST OF ENTRIES
counterpoint en(h)oplian hendiadys counterpoint rhythm enjambment heptameter coupe envelope heptasyllable couplet envoi hermeneutics courtly love epanalepsis hermeticism cretic epenthesis heroic couplet criticism epiploke heterogram cross rhyme epitrite heterometric cuaderna vía epode heteronym cueca chilena equivalence hexameter cultural criticism estilística hiatus curtal sonnet estribillo hieroglyph cybertext ethnopoetics historicism cynghanedd ethos homodyne and heterodyne cywydd euphony homoeoteleuton dactyl evaluation hovering accent dactylo-epitrite exegesis hudibrastic verse dansa exemplum huitain dead metaphor exoticism humors decadence explication hypallage decasyllable explication de texte hyperbaton décima expression hyperbole decir eye rhyme hypermetric decorum fancy hypogram defamiliarization fatras hypometric deixis feigning hyporchema demotion fi gura hypotaxis and parataxis descort fi guration hysteron proteron dhvani fi li iambe diaeresis fl yting iambic dialogue folia iambic shortening diction foot iconicity diffi culty formalism iconology dimeter formula ictus dindshenchas fourteener identical rhyme dipodism, dipodic verse fractal verse ideogram discordia concors fragment idyll dissociation of sensibility Frankfurt school image dissonance frottola and barzelletta imagery distich furor poeticus imagination dithyramb gai saber imitation ditty gaita gallega incantation divan galliamb(us) incremental repetition dizer generative metrics indeterminacy dochmiac generic rhyme infl uence dol’nik Geneva school in medias res double dactyl genius In Memoriam stanza dozens Gesellschaftslied inscape and instress duration glosa inspiration dyfalu glossolalia intensity eclogue glyconic intention écriture grammatical rhyme intentional fallacy eisteddfod Greek Anthology internal rhyme elegiac distich greguería interpretation elegiac stanza Guslar intertextuality elision haibun intuition ellipsis Hebraism invective emotion Hellenism. See GREEK POETRY; HEBRAISM invention empathy and sympathy hemiepes ionic enargeia hemistich irony end-stopped hendecasyllable isochronism or isochrony © Copyright, Princeton University Press. No part of this book may be distributed, posted, or reproduced in any form by digital or mechanical means without prior written permission of the publisher.
TERMS AND CONCEPTS xvii isocolon and parison novas (rimadas) point of view. See PERSONA; PLOT; VOICE isometric number(s) polyptoton ithyphallic numerology polysemy je ne sais quoi objective correlative polysyndeton jitanjáfora obscurity postcolonial poetics jongleur octave poststructuralism kenning octonarius poulter’s measure kharja octosyllable préciosité Kokinshū odl pregunta laisse Omar Khayyám quatrain presence lauda Onegin stanza priamel laureate. See POET LAUREATE onomatopoeia priapea leich open form proceleusmatic leonine rhyme, verse oral-formulaic theory promotion letrilla oral poetry pronunciation line organicism prose rhythm lipogram originality prosimetrum lira ornament prosodic feature analysis of verse litotes ottava rima prosody logaoedic oxymoron prosopopoeia mal mariée paeon pseudo-statement Man’yōshū palindrome pun. See PARONOMASIA masculine and feminine parabasis punctuation matrix paraclausithyron pure poetry measure paradox pyrrhic meiosis paralipsis pythiambic melopoeia, phanopoeia, parallelism qit. a¶ logopoeia paraphrase, heresy of quantity metalepsis or parenthesis quatrain transumption paroemiac querelle des anciens et des metaphor paronomasia modernes meter partimen quintain metonymy pathetic fallacy reader metrici and rhythmici pathos reader response metron patronage reception theory. See READER RESPONSE mime pause recitation mimesis pentameter refrain minstrel penthemimer refrán molossus performance refrein monk’s tale stanza period rejet monody periphrasis relative stress principle monometer persona remate monorhyme personifi cation renga monostich phalaecean repetition mora phonestheme representation mosaic rhyme pie quebrado resolution mote pitch responsion motif plain style reversed consonance muse ploce reverse rhyme myth plot rhapsode naïve-sentimental poet rhopalic verse narrator. See PERSONA; VOICE poète maudit rhyme national poetry poetess rhyme counterpoint nature poetic contests rhyme-prose Natureingang poetic function rhyme royal near rhyme poetic license rhyme scheme negative capability poetic madness rhythm neoterics poetics, Western rhythmic fi gures New Criticism poet laureate rich rhyme New Historicism poetry reading rime riche. See IDENTICAL RHYME; Nibelungenstrophe poiēsis RHYME; RICH RHYME © Copyright, Princeton University Press. No part of this book may be distributed, posted, or reproduced in any form by digital or mechanical means without prior written permission of the publisher. xviii TOPICAL LIST OF ENTRIES
rising and falling rhythm symbol versi sciolti ritornello synaeresis vers libéré rota virgiliana synaesthesia vers mesurés à l’antique rune synaloepha verso piano running rhythm synapheia verso sdrucciolo Saturnian syncopation verso tronco saudosismo syncope vida scansion synecdoche villancico scheme system visual rhyme. See EYE RHYME Schüttelreim syzygy voice scop tail rhyme volta seguidilla taste Wartburgkrieg senarius technopaegnion wheel. See BOB AND WHEEL senhal telesilleum wit sensibility tenor and vehicle word-count sentimentality tercet work septenarius tetrameter wrenched accent septet tétramètre xenoglossia serial form text yuefu serranilla textual criticism zaum’ sestet textuality zeugma sexain texture Shijing thematics Genres and Forms Shinkokinshū timbre abecedarius Sicilian octave tlacuilolli acrostic sign, signifi ed, signifi er tmesis air signifying tone alba simile topos allegory sincerity tornada anecdote slang. See DICTION Tottel’s Miscellany anthem, national śles. a touchstones aphorism. See EPIGRAM songbook tradition balada sound translation balagtasan space, poetic tribrach ballad spatial form trilogy ballade speaker. See PERSONA; VOICE trimeter beast epic speech act theory trimètre bestiary Spenserian stanza triple rhyme Biblical poetry. See HEBREW POETRY; split lines triplet HEBREW PROSODY AND POETICS; HYMN; spoken word. See PERFORMANCE trobairitz PSALM spondee trobar clus, trobar leu blank verse spontaneity trochaic blason Spruchdichtung trope blues sprung rhythm troubadour broadside ballad stances trouvère bucolic stanza typography burlesque. See CONTRAFACTUM; stave unity PARODY; PASTICHE stichomythia upamā calendrical poetry stichos ut pictura poesis calligramme stock utpreks. ā canción stornello variable foot canso strambotto variation cantar strophe vates cantiga structure Venus and Adonis stanza carol style verisimilitude. See MIMESIS chanso, chanson. See FRANCE, POETRY stylistics vers OF; OCCITAN POETRY; SONGBOOK; sublime verse and prose TROUBADOUR; TROUVÈRE substitution verse paragraph chanson de geste syllabic verse verse systems. See METER chanson de toile syllable verset chant syllepsis versifi cation chante-fable © Copyright, Princeton University Press. No part of this book may be distributed, posted, or reproduced in any form by digital or mechanical means without prior written permission of the publisher.
GENRES AND FORMS xix chant royal form pastourelle charm found poetry pattern poetry. See CALLIGRAMME; ci free verse CONCRETE POETRY; TECHNOPAEGNION; clerihew freie rhythmen VISUAL POETRY closet drama freie verse payada collage fu penitential psalms comedy gaucho poetry planctus comma poem genre planh companion poems georgic poem complaint ghazal poetry computational poetry gnomic poetry poetry slam conceptual poetry Goliardic verse political verse concrete poetry haikai proem conversation poem haiku, Western prophetic poetry corrido. See CHICANA/O POETRY; heroic verse prose poem ROMANCE hybrid poetry proverb country house poem hymn psalm cowboy poetry jingle psalms, metrical descriptive poetry kind qas. īda devotional poetry Knittelvers quatorzain dialect poetry lai quintilla didactic poetry lament rap. See HIP-HOP POETICS Dinggedicht landscape poem razo dirge letter, verse. See VERSE EPISTLE recusatio dit lied redondilla dizain light verse reverdie doggerel limerick riddle dramatic monologue. See MONOLOGUE liturgical poetry rímur dramatic poetry long poem ring composition dream vision love poetry rispetto dub poetry. See CARIBBEAN, POETRY lullaby romance OF THE lyric rondeau echo verse lyric sequence rondel ecstatic poetry macaronic verse rotrouenge edda madrigal roundel ekphrasis manifesto rubā ī¶ electronic poetry masnavī saga elegy masque sapphic emblem medieval romance satire encomium melic poetry sestina endecha micropoetries sextilla englyn Minnesang shi ensalada mock epic, mock heroic silloi ensenhamen monologue silva epic morale élémentaire sirventes epicedium muwashshah . . See AL-ANDALUS, POETRY Skeltonic epideictic poetry OF; ARABIC POETRY; HEBREW POETRY skolion epigram narrative poetry slam, poetry. See POETRY SLAM epinikion nativity poem song epitaph Nō sonnet epithalamium nonsense verse sonnet sequence epithet nursery rhymes sotadean epyllion occasional verse sound poetry erotic poetry ode spiritual espinela paean stasimon estampida palinode tagelied fable panegyric tenso fabliau pantun terza rima fescennine verses parody terza rima sonnet fi nida pastiche toast folk poetry. See ORAL POETRY pastoral tragedy © Copyright, Princeton University Press. No part of this book may be distributed, posted, or reproduced in any form by digital or mechanical means without prior written permission of the publisher. xx TOPICAL LIST OF ENTRIES
tragicomedy imagism seconde rhétorique triolet impressionism Sicilian school tumbling verse jazz poetry smithy poets verse drama. See DRAMATIC POETRY Jindyworobak spasmodic school verse epistle Kootenay school structuralism verse novel. See NARRATIVE POETRY Lake school Sturm und Drang vers libre Language poetry surrealism villanelle lesbian poetry symbolism virelai lettrisme Tachtigers visual poetry mannerism Tel Quel waka Marinism TISH war poetry medieval poetics Transcendentalists ymryson medieval poetry ultraism zéjel Meistersinger vorticism metaphysical poetry XUL Periods, Schools, and Movements minimalism acmeism modernism National, Regional, and Diasporic Agrarians modernismo Poetries Alexandrianism Moscow-Tartu school. See STRUCTURALISM Africa, poetry of Areopagus Movement, the African American poetry avant-garde poetics naturalism Afrikaans poetry. See SOUTH AFRICA, baroque Negritude POETRY OF Beat poetry neobaroque Akkadian poetry. See ASSYRIA AND Biedermeier neoclassical poetics BABYLONIA, POETRY OF Black Arts movement neo-Gongorism Al-Andalus, poetry of Black Mountain school New Formalism Albania, poetry of Cavalier poets New York school American Indian poetry. See Chicago school Nil Volentibus Arduum INDIGENOUS AMERICAS, POETRY OF THE; Ciceronianism Noigandres INUIT POETRY; NAVAJO POETRY classical poetics Norske Selskab American poetry. See UNITED STATES, classical prosody Nuyorican Poets Café POETRY OF THE Cockney school of poetry objectivism American Sign Language poetry confessional poetry Oulipo Amerind poetry. See INDIGENOUS Connecticut wits Parnassianism AMERICAS, POETRY OF THE constructivism Petrarchism Amharic poetry. See ETHIOPIA, POETRY OF courtly makers Pléiade Arabic poetics creationism postmodernism Arabic poetry cubism Prague school. See STRUCTURALISM Arabic prosody Dada Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Araucanian poetry. See INDIGENOUS Dark Room Collective Pre-Raphaelitism AMERICAS, POETRY OF THE Deep Image preromanticism Argentina, poetry of Dolce stil nuovo primitivism Armenian poetry and poetics ecopoetry. See ENVIRONMENT AND procedural poetry. See ALEATORY Asian American poetry POETRY POETICS; CONCEPTUAL POETRY; OULIPO Assamese poetry Évora critics projective verse Assyria and Babylonia, poetry of expressionism protest poetry Australia, poetry of Félibrige queer poetry Austria, poetry of Finland-Swedish modernists realism Aztec poetry. See INDIGENOUS Fireside poets rederijkers AMERICAS, POETRY OF THE Flarf Renaissance poetics Basque Country, poetry of the fl eshly school of poetry Renaissance poetry Belarus, poetry of. See RUSSIA, POETRY OF Fugitives rhétoriqueurs, grands Belgium, poetry of futurism Rhymers’ Club Bengali poetry Fyrtiotalisterna rococo Bhakti poetry. See INDIA, POETRY OF gay poetry romantic and postromantic poetry Bolivia, poetry of Georgianism and poetics Bosnian poetry graveyard poetry romanticism Brazil, poetry of Harlem Renaissance Russian formalism Breton poetry Hellenistic poetics. See San Francisco Renaissance Bulgaria, poetry of ALEXANDRIANISM; CLASSICAL POETICS Satanic school Byzantine poetry Hellenistic poetry. See GREEK POETRY school of Spenser Cambodia, poetry of hip-hop poetics Scottish Chaucerians or Makars Canada, poetry of © Copyright, Princeton University Press. No part of this book may be distributed, posted, or reproduced in any form by digital or mechanical means without prior written permission of the publisher.
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Caribbean, poetry of the Iceland, poetry of Nahuatl, poetry of. See INDIGENOUS Catalan poetry Inca poetry. See INDIGENOUS AMERICAS, AMERICAS, POETRY OF THE Celtic prosody POETRY OF THE Native American poetry. See Chicana/o poetry India, English poetry of INDIGENOUS AMERICAS, POETRY OF THE; Chile, poetry of India, poetry of INUIT POETRY; NAVAJO POETRY China, modern poetry of Indian prosody Navajo poetry China, poetry of indigenous Americas, poetry of the Nepāl Bhās.a. See NEWAR POETRY China, popular poetry of Indonesian poetry Nepali and Pahari poetry Chinese poetic drama Inuit poetry Netherlands, poetry of the. See LOW Chinese poetics Iranian poetry. See PERSIAN POETRY COUNTRIES, POETRY OF THE Chinese poetry in English translation Ireland, poetry of Newar poetry Chinese poetry in Japan Italian prosody New Norse (Nynorsk) Colombia, poetry of Italy, poetry of New Zealand, poetry of Cornish poetry Japan, modern poetry of Nicaragua, poetry of Croatian poetry Japan, poetry of Norse poetry Cuba, poetry of. See CARIBBEAN, Japanese linked verse. See RENGA Norway, poetry of POETRY OF THE Japanese poetic diaries Nuyorican poetry Czech poetry Japanese poetics Occitan poetry Danish poetry. See DENMARK, Java, poetry of. See INDONESIAN POETRY Oriya poetry POETRY OF Judeo-Spanish poetry Persian poetry Denmark, poetry of Kannada poetry Peru, poetry of Dutch poetry. See LOW COUNTRIES, Kashmiri poetry Philippines, poetry of the POETRY OF THE Korea, poetry of Poland, poetry of Ecuador, poetry of Ladino poetry. See JUDEO-SPANISH Polynesian poetry Egypt, poetry of POETRY Portugal, poetry of El Salvador, poetry of Latin America, poetry of. See Prakrit poetry England, poetry of ARGENTINA, POETRY OF; BOLIVIA, POETRY Provençal poetry. See OCCITAN POETRY English prosody OF; BRAZIL, POETRY OF; CHILE, POETRY Puerto Rico, poetry of. See CARIBBEAN, Esperanto poetry OF; COLOMBIA, POETRY OF; ECUADOR, POETRY OF THE Estonia, poetry of POETRY OF; EL SALVADOR, POETRY OF; Punjabi poetry Ethiopia, poetry of GAUCHO POETRY; GUARANÍ POETRY; Rāmāya na. poetry Finland, poetry of GUATEMALA, POETRY OF; INDIGENOUS Romania, poetry of Flemish poetry. See LOW COUNTRIES, AMERICAS, POETRY OF THE; MAPUCHE Romani poetry POETRY OF THE POETRY; MEXICO, POETRY OF; NICARAGUA, Romansh poetry. See SWITZERLAND, France, poetry of POETRY OF; PERU, POETRY OF; SPANISH POETRY OF francophone poets of the U.S. AMERICA, POETRY OF; URUGUAY, POETRY Russia, poetry of French poetry. See FRANCE, POETRY OF OF; VENEZUELA, POETRY OF Sanskrit poetics French prosody Latin poetics. See CLASSICAL POETICS; Sanskrit poetry Frisian poetry CLASSICISM; MEDIEVAL POETICS Scotland, poetry of Gaelic poetry. See IRELAND, POETRY OF; Latin poetry Scottish Gaelic poetry. See SCOTLAND, SCOTLAND, POETRY OF Latin prosody. See CLASSICAL PROSODY POETRY OF Galicia, poetry of Latvia, poetry of Sephardic poetry. See JUDEO-SPANISH Georgia, poetry of Lithuania, poetry of POETRY Germanic prosody Low Countries, poetry of the Serbian poetry German poetry Macedonian poetry Siamese poetry. See THAILAND, POETRY Greek poetics. See ALEXANDRIANISM; Magyar poetry. See HUNGARY, POETRY OF BYZANTINE POETRY; CLASSICAL POETICS OF Sindhi poetry. See INDIA, POETRY OF Greek poetry Malayalam poetry Sinhalese poetry. See SRI LANKA, Guaraní poetry Malay poetry POETRY OF Guatemala, poetry of Maori poetry. See NEW ZEALAND, Slavic poetics. See BOSNIAN POETRY; Gujarati poetry POETRY OF CROATIAN POETRY; CZECH POETRY; Gypsy poetry. See ROMANI POETRY Mapuche poetry POLAND, POETRY OF; RUSSIA, POETRY OF; Haiti, poetry of. See CARIBBEAN, POETRY Marathi poetry SERBIAN POETRY; SLOVENIAN POETRY OF THE Mayan poetry. See INDIGENOUS Slovakia, poetry of Hausa poetry AMERICAS, POETRY OF THE Slovenian poetry Hebrew poetry Mesoamerica, poetry of. See Somali poetry Hebrew prosody and poetics INDIGENOUS AMERICAS, POETRY OF THE South Africa, poetry of Hindi poetry Mexican American poetry. See South America, poetry of. See Hispano-Arabic poetry. See CHICANA/O POETRY ARGENTINA, POETRY OF; BOLIVIA, POETRY AL-ANDALUS, POETRY OF Mexico, poetry of OF; BRAZIL, POETRY OF; CHILE, POETRY Hittite poetry Mongolia, poetry of OF; COLOMBIA, POETRY OF; ECUADOR, Hungary, poetry of Mozarabic poetry. See SPAIN, POETRY OF POETRY OF; GAUCHO POETRY; GUARANÍ © Copyright, Princeton University Press. No part of this book may be distributed, posted, or reproduced in any form by digital or mechanical means without prior written permission of the publisher. xxii TOPICAL LIST OF ENTRIES
POETRY; INDIGENOUS AMERICAS, POETRY Vedic poetry. See INDIA, POETRY OF history and poetry OF THE; MAPUCHE POETRY; PERU, POETRY Venezuela, poetry of information, poetry as OF; URUGUAY, POETRY OF; VENEZUELA, Vietnam, poetry of knowledge, poetry as POETRY OF Welsh poetry linguistics and poetics Spain, poetry of Welsh prosody. See CELTIC PROSODY music and poetry Spanish America, poetry of West Indian poetry. See CARIBBEAN, novel, poetry in the Spanish prosody POETRY OF THE painting and poetry Sri Lanka, poetry of Xhosa poetry philosophy and poetry Sumerian poetry Yiddish poetry poetry therapy. See THERAPY Swahili poetry Yoruba poetry. See AFRICA, POETRY OF AND POETRY Sweden, poetry of Zulu poetry politics and poetry Switzerland, poetry of psychology and poetry Tamil poetry and poetics Poetry in Culture and Society religion and poetry Telugu poetry anthropology and poetry rhetoric and poetry Thailand, poetry of artifact, poetry as science and poetry Tibet, contemporary poetry of belief and poetry semantics and poetry Tibet, traditional poetry and biography and poetry semiotics and poetry poetics of cultural studies and poetry syntax, poetic Turkic poetry dance and poetry technology and poetry Turkish poetry documentary poetics therapy and poetry Ukraine, poetry of environment and poetry visual arts and poetry. See CARMINA United States, poetry of the feminist approaches to poetry FIGURATA; CONCRETE POETRY; EKPHRASIS; Urdu poetry fi ction, poetry as PAINTING AND POETRY; UT PICTURA Uruguay, poetry of gender and poetry POESIS; VISUAL POETRY